Pennies from Heaven

I know there are those who would scoff at the thought that pennies can actually be delivered from Heaven, but I, for one, believe in it whole-heartedly. Shortly after my first husband died, the pennies started appearing. It started with the six pennies I found two weeks after his death. I was home alone, doing some house cleaning. I had scrubbed and vacuumed the upstairs and was working on the first floor. I decided to carry some laundry to my bedroom and found three pennies on the carpet that I had just vacuumed. There was no logical explanation for their appearance, but I just put them in my pocket and carried on.

Later that day, after finishing my cleaning, I sat down on the living room sofa. When I looked down, I saw three pennies on the floor. Yes, the floor I had vacuumed 30 minutes prior. I thought perhaps that these were the three pennies from my pocket, but they were not. The original three were still in my pocket where I put them.

From that point on, and for the last 15 years, I find pennies everywhere. I won’t bore you with the countless stories of these pennies appearing in my life, but they have appeared when I needed encouragement, when I have had a difficult choice to make, and when I was enormously happy. My friends and family are amazed by it, as they have been witnesses to this, and we all believe they are from Ray. So I pick them up, and say a prayer or a hello.

After my mom died, a friend told me to watch out for pennies from Mom. The day after she said this to me was the day I was looking for the gift necklace I mentioned in Mom’s eulogy. My jewelry is always hugely disorganized, strewn all over my dresser, my bathroom counter, my jewelry armoire. I was getting a bit frantic as I searched for it and was going back and forth between the dresser and the armoire. There’s a lid on the top that you lift up, and about the third time I lifted the lid, a penny literally fell into the jewelry. Now, of course, I understand that the penny was likely on top of the lid, and that it didn’t drop from the sky, but it was just so weird how it fell. “Clink.” I just stared for the longest time.

This one surprised me more than most of them, and I had to wonder… is it from Ray, or is it from Mom? I jokingly said “Mom, you need to do nickles or something, because how will I know?” The next day, when I opened a book to start journaling… there was a $20 bill. I know you nay-sayers are thinking “coincidence”, but I know better. 🙂

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5 thoughts on “Pennies from Heaven”

I ABSOLUTELY 100% believe this. My dad started dropping pennies right away! One time we had a family gathering and while we were all sitting there, literally one dropped from the ceiling! We have stories upon stories upon stories! Save them – keep them – treasure them!

Oh Michele I am right there with you. And your Mom know that the $20 was her way of saying…. pennies…no way not for my girl, now you will know the difference. May you continue to line your pockets so you know you are being watched.